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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Tourist arrivals, Israelis’ departures spike in first months of 2019
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSome 2.03 million arrivals entered Israel from January through May 2019, a 10 percent jump from the same period in 2018, according to figures released today by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Of that number, 1.9 million arrivals were tourists, a jump of 8%.
The first five month of 2019 also saw 2.7 million departures by air of Israelis traveling abroad — a 6 percent spike from the same period in 2018.
Another 240,000 departures occurred over Israel’s land borders with Egypt and Jordan during the same period, a 20% jump from last year apparently driven by Israelis’ return to vacationing in the Sinai Peninsula.
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